Monogamy with a STD-free partner or staying abstinent from sex are technically the only ways to prevent STDs, including HPV. Even with the vaccine, you are not protected from (other) various types of HPV and you are not guaranteed to be protected from cervical cancer.

There is nothing wrong with waiting out how this vaccine will work after a few years. It is still too new to earn my trust, especially when it has been approved for men, yet it is not advertised to boys to get the vaccine prior to sexual activity, while it is advertised for girls to do so. More testing is needed to find out why these girls were hurt, what exactly was the common thread that pulled these girls together and how can their problem be added to the screening process for who gets this vaccine and who does not. We still need to know if booster shots will be needed throughout our lives. (Since it is only approved up to age 26, how would a booster shot be administered?) (Just my honest opinion)

The HPV virus cannot be tested for in men.Therefore, men do not know that they have it until it is too late and the women is infected.Using protection is your best bet.Monogamy isn't always sound proof either.People cheat.

As for posts like Ethel, no, "underlying" illnesses are NOT the only cases where girls have fell ill/passed from this vaccine.

but the best way to prevent it is to be careful not to sleep with people who have HPV/genital warts.Actually that's the best way to prevent any STD.It's not like it's a virus that just pops up on it's own, it has to be transmitted.

By keeping yourself protected, your odds are better for not getting it.0-

9Even if you do get it, it's not the end of the world, be seen quarterly if high risk and when done having kids, have your cervix removed. After having kids, you no longer need it and without it, you cannot get cervical cancer.

yea just get the dam shot and be happy, HPV is like the second most common std in america, im freakin paranoid ima get HPV just by driving downtown and standin next to people. ima rub purell all over my body and carry lysol, i can be like a super hero agaisnt germs and i will bravely walk the streets of infenctions and disable the the power grids of disease with my suit of germ-x and handy lysol can that eliminates odors as well... look out scum!!